Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 3 93

Conﬁguring and Administering the BIND Name Service

Starting the Name Server Daemon

The name server daemon, /usr/sbin/named, must be running on every

primary, secondary, and caching-only name server. If you have conﬁgured

your system to query a remote name server (that is, if you have created

an /etc/resolv.conf ﬁle that directs BIND queries to a name server

on another host), you do not have to run the named daemon on your host.

Before you start the name server daemon, make sure syslogd is

running. syslogd logs informational and error messages. For

information on conﬁguring syslogd, see “Installing and Conﬁguring

Internet Services” on page 27 in this manual.

Follow these steps to start the name server daemon:

1. In the /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs ﬁle, set the NAMED

environment variable to 1, as follows:

NAMED=1

2. Issue the following command to determine whether named is already

running:

ps -ef | grep named

3. If named is not running, issue the following command to start it:

/sbin/init.d/named start

For more information, type man 1M named at the HP-UX prompt.

Verifying the Name Server

1. If you are running syslogd, check the

/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log ﬁle for error messages. If error

messages are recorded, see “Troubleshooting the BIND Name Server”

on page 100.

2. Start nslookup(1) with the following command:

/usr/bin/nslookup

3. At the > prompt, issue the server command to force nslookup to

use the server you want to test:

> server BIND_server_hostname